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It's always great to see an old story get new life. Many thanks to Tim Waldron and The Literary Review for bringing "Martin" back into the world, and to everyone at Quarterly West for getting it there in the first place.

Many thanks to Michael B. Tager﻿ and the editors at Jmww Journal﻿ for their go at Any Deadly Thing: "(E)very one of the characters is someone the reader can latch on to. Their choices are terrible, but they make sense. It's not something you would do (you hope), but it's something you can't look away from, like the tastiest, pathos-iest train wreck you've ever seen.”

So back a hundred years ago Tom Williams asked me a question about the future of fiction for a thing he was doing at American Book Review, and in my answer there was this preposterous little etymo-pun, or something. So then a hundred years later I took that whatever-it-was thing and gave it to a character who took it literally and the result just showed up (in the good company of Ha Jin and Heidi Julavits and John Wray and a bunch of other cool people) in a great magazine called The Literarian, published by the Center for Fiction and edited by Dawn Raffel.

I've got a new story (and an interview to boot) up at the excellent Subtropics, rubbing shoulders with great work by Padgett Powell, Kevin Prufer and Chris Bachelder, among many others. Many thanks to Anastasia Kozak for her great questions and to David Leavitt for his deft touch.

A full glass lifted to Ron Mitchell and the rest of the staff at Southern Indiana Review for fitting two chunks of flash memoir into their Spring 2010 issue. “Houhai Lake in Winter” and “The Overnight Train from Xian Pulls Into Beijing” have superb company - Liam Rector and James Valvis, Randall Brown and Joe Meno, Laura Madeline Wiseman and Adam Johnson, bright lights all.